How to get Weight Forward? Beginner Kitefoiling Tips

It can be easy to say to a new kitefoiler - "Get more weight forwards!" - but how do you actually do that? Many find they take their front hand off the bar to make this happen but it makes controlling the kite far hard, can put other parts of your body into the wrong position and result in other issues in the future.

So in this video I'm gonna show you 2 key techniques you can use that will have the same affect and allow you to get lots of weight forward. A vital skills you need for riding both off the foil and when up and foiling.

0:00 Intro
0:16 The correct stance
0:42 The bad stance
1:28 Shoulders towards the nose
2:03 Hip Forwards
2:54 Summary
3:20 Need more help?

If you want to know about about my No 1 Bad Habit for Kitefoiling - taking the front hand off the bar - check out the following video:

If you want more help with learning to Kitefoil, check out the full Kitefoiling Volume 1 Collection:

[GaetanoCrisci]

good advice! to all hydrofoil starters I suggest to take 1 or 2 hour lesson of wake foil towed by a dinghy or mastercraft, dividing the water start and first meters on the foil in 2 parts(before without thinking to the kite) will guarantee the progression, this hours are also very useful to find and set the best position of the mast on the board!

[RfQuintella]

Your other video with the tip on the one hand in the harness/close to the body was a game changer for me when I was learning.

[KevinBradley-lq]

I'm just starting to foil and the hip was the key for me. Shift the hip. Pretend there is a wall or vertical line coming up from the front of the board--- try to shift your hips towards the front to touch the imaginary wall

[XBen]

Rob, really appreciate all your advice. I am doing well going on my natural stance (goofy) but when I try to go regular stance on my kitefoil I have not been able to get going. any tips?

[tomaszkaczmarski]

Hey for me best technique to control keeping weigt forward\backward is to stay in seating position keeping both legs bended